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Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim today said he was prepared to bare all his bank accounts following allegations that he has RM3 billion worth of assets and cash. - http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/200406

NOW!!! That we don't see very often. Two politicians getting frisky with each other.

LMHOROTF!!!

Malaysia, A Free Country? Kiss My Ass!

The Evidence (Amendment) (No.2) Act 2012 - is this the government's plan to make us shut the fuck up?

Traditionally a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty but the Evidence Act 2012 reverses this. In other words, you are responsible for anything posted on your website and the burden is on you to prove your innocence, not on the prosecution to prove your guilt.

According to Nazri, the law was tightened because “we don’t want people to slander or threaten others,”. What the fuck? What did the government do when the opposition leader's and supporters had to face problems associated with illegal protestors, hidden cameras, abduction, false accusations, etc? Busy sucking your thumbs eh?

And looking at everything that is taking place around us, you people think this new act is gonna be used for the benefit of the Malaysian people? Come on, everybody knows, it's the government's way of squeezing our balls.

Free country? Democratic nation? Human rights prevail? Kiss my ass!

http://malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/from-around-the-blogs/49617-black-day-for-internet-users
http://www.federalgazette.agc.gov.my/outputaktap/20120209_A1424_BI_JW001763%20Act%20A1424-BI.pdf

Women vs Men

Anyone who rejects that women are smarter than men need only look at the recent statistics for students enrolled in the graduate schools of business, law, medicine, and dentistry. Women now outnumber men in those graduate schools and will soon hold the majority in those lofty careers. Does this make women smarter? I don’t see how anyone can deny this. They came from way behind fifty years ago, and are currently leaving men in their dust, proving that all they ever needed was an equal opportunity.

Women endure physical pain in a manner men could never consider. Think childbirth. And single mothers are raising half of the children in America by themselves, while holding down full-time careers. Are women tougher than men? Clearly they are. There are few jobs any longer that require brute strength alone, and even physically challenging careers in firefighting and police work are being handled capably by women.

But women’s greatest power is in their enormous emotional strength that they call upon when necessary. They can capably provide the love and emotional care their children need, and support their husbands’ needs simultaneously. They aren’t afraid of their emotions, and, unlike men, don’t hide from them out of fear or ignorance. They know how to deal with their feelings as they arise. Men who think women are weak because they cry more easily than they do are delusional. Women cry to release their pent-up emotions, instead of holding them in and blowing up. Men have yet to learn this simple lesson.

What does all of this mean to men? It means that its way past late for men to respond to the deafening wake-up call and become fully embodied men. That means becoming men who are confident in their manhood and can express, feel, and control their emotions. It means men who don’t feel threatened by women, and mistreat them because of their own inadequacies. It means that men are now the ones behind the eight-ball, and sadly, many still haven’t figured that out. Men are being left behind in so many arenas that they are becoming angry instead of resourceful, which makes no sense whatsoever.

Men used to wield all of the power in relationships and were responsible for the day-to-day, general well-being of the women they were in relationships with. That was a burden that men didn’t handle very well, and that women decided to assume. Women have beaten a path towards success and independence that is faster than any social change I can recall. They accomplished all of this with a minimal amount of fuss and noise.

How could women have achieved this if they weren’t smarter, tougher, and more emotionally centered, and what are the lessons men can learn from women? Men who fail to answer the wake-up will be left holding the bag of discontent and loneliness. Women are clever enough to realize that waiting for men to come around is going to take too long. Many now view men in the same way men used to see them, as necessary sexual partners with little else to offer.

Men should feel threatened, at least enough to change their dysfunctional behavior. Fathers who don’t spend time with their children damage them because they deny their children the most important aspect of fatherhood, emotional support. Fathers who cheat their children by withholding child-support because they don’t like the notion of supporting their ex-wives too, have to be plenty stupid, or in serious denial, to believe that baloney. Men can’t choose whether or not to be fathers. If you have a child, you’re a father, end of story. 


 While women have been working hard together in small groups to find their places in the world, men have been sitting on the sidelines, wearing their crown. Now they are watching helplessly as they’re being left in the dust. Men should be angry, but not with their female bosses who kick their asses or their female co-workers who complete more projects or their wives who earn more then them. Men should be angry at their own emotional laziness. Men who continue on the same path will wake up one day to find that not only are women in charge, but that their services are no longer  required (remember, we have modern tools to replace the need for men!).

Check List for Malaysian Politicians.

The Malaysian 13th General Election is just around the corner and the next Parliament session starts in June. There are numerous issues that I'd like to see raised in Parliament and to get answers from. So, dear politicians if you  want my vote, you better take note of these:

--> I want better education system. I want the grading/marking system to be reliable. I want the crappy syllabus to be checked. I want all students with good SPM results to be offered a place in local U- free. Do away with STPM. I want better quality teachers, not SPM second graders.
--> I want better health facility. I want better service by medical officers, I want clean and hygienic hospital. I want good medicines in government clinic/hospitals. I want it to be made compulsory for all cabinet ministers only to attend government clinic/hospitals.
--> I want all city councils do their goddamn job. I want every road, every sungai, every longkang and every waste disposal area to be clean and hygienic. I want representatives of each area to be responsible for its cleanliness.
--> I want foreign workers intake to be controlled. I want more job opportunities for Malaysians with better pay, not a lousy RM800 per month.
--> I want all government tenders to be made open tenders with no special favours for those with bumiputera status or their relationship with politicians. I want all new government projects to be made known to public and public opinion taken into serious consideration before implementing it.
--> I want the people of Malaysia be given the right to assemble wherever they want to, whenever they want to.
--> I want the people of Malaysia be given the right to practice a religion of their choice and that includes a right to change their faith and beliefs as they wish.
--> I want our justice system to stop kissing the government's ass. I want the government to stop squeezing the judge's balls.
--> I want the police to do their goddamn job -serve and protect the people. I want the police to stop being the government's watchdog.
--> I want any politicians and government servants who are facing corruption charges to be suspended until the investigation is over.
--> I want all politicians to publicly declare their asset.
--> I want the Prime Minister to go to France and face the charges imposed on him by the French prosecutors. Prove yourself innocent if you are.
--> I want all media to be free of any political influence.

...now that's not too much to ask for, was it?

Take My Hand

Take my hand dear friend. Allow us to walk together and share our inner most secrets. Let us be there for each other in times of joy and times of despair. Let us walk together and share what life has to offer. Let us criticize each other constructively to better ourselves, yet without malice. Times of indifference are sure to challenge the friendship we share. There are those who will try and compromise us.

Let us never forget what brought us together. Remember what we have in common. Let us never forget to laugh at life and all it holds. Do not lose sight of the compassion we need. Our strengths, our weaknesses, our likes and dislikes all make us who we are. It is whom we are that makes our friendship special. I do not have to live your life. I do not expect you to live mine. What works for me may not work for you. That does not mean we can't be friends. Your color matters not with me. Your shape holds no bearing on what we share. Your age is an asset to what we share. You may be older. You may be younger. We can still learn from each other. Share a smile, a laugh, a gesture, a joke, a tear, a kiss or a hug. It's all the same. We are stronger for having each other. Put no commitments on me and I’ll not put any on you. We remain free to be who we are. Your successes are my successes. Your failures I share too. I smile when you feel good. I share your pain when you hurt physically or emotionally. You will never have to walk alone. Take my hand and walk with me. I am your friend. There are no conditions on my friendship. Do not cast conditions on me. Take my hand. You can be my friend. I'll hold you dear and respect your views. That's what friends do.

Take my hand dear friend. Allow us to walk together and share our inner most secrets. Let us be there for each other in times of joy and times of despair. Let us walk together and share what life has to offer. Let us criticize each other constructively to better ourselves, yet without malice. Times of indifference are sure to challenge the friendship we share.

There are those who will try and compromise us. Let us never forget what brought us together. Remember what we have in common. Let us never forget to laugh at life and all it holds. Do not lose sight of the compassion we need. Our strengths, our weaknesses, our likes and dislikes all make us who we are. It is whom we are that makes our friendship special. I do not have to live your life. I do not expect you to live mine. What works for me may not work for you. That does not mean we can't be friends. Your color matters not with me. Your shape holds no bearing on what we share. Your age is an asset to what we share. You may be older. You may be younger. We can still learn from each other. Share a smile, a laugh, a gesture, a joke, a tear, a kiss or a hugg. It's all the same. We are stronger for having each other. Put no commitments on me and I’ll not put any on you. We remain free to be who we are. Your successes are my successes. Your failures I share too. I smile when you feel good. I share your pain when you hurt physically or emotionally. You will never have to walk alone. Take my hand and walk with me. I am your friend.

There are no conditions on my friendship. Do not cast conditions on me. Take my hand. You can be my friend. I'll hold you dear and respect your views. That's what friends do.

Moideen is in LaLa Land

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/muhyiddin-our-schools-are-better-than-the-us-britain-and-germany/

Moideen: Our sekolah is better than US, Britain & Germany.

Huh? Helloo...We can't even get our history facts right and we've been teaching our kids bunch of lies in the name of history and we've got a better education system? Foreign education system challenges the students to think and enhance their problem solving skill, while we merely spoon feed our kids from Standard One all the way to Form Five, and you say we've got a better education system then them? Our English language standard as taught in schools is not acceptable by schools in foreign countries that our students have to equip themselves with internationally recognized English certification such as 1119 English, TOEFL, etc and you dare say we teach better than them?
I think our Edu Minister is still in LaLa Land. Someone please pass me a pillow to smack his head!

WHOSE HUDUD- GOD or MEN?

IF we were to believe everything the politicians are saying about hudud, we would come to three conclusions. One, that implementing the punishments prescribed under hudud is divine law that no Muslim can question, and hence is inevitable. Two, that hudud cannot be implemented in Malaysia because of the Federal Constitution and our multi-cultural composition. And three, non-Muslims have no business worrying about this Islamic penal code.

Are any of these assumptions about hudud accurate? Beyond that, what are the proclamations by PAS, Umno and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) politicians regarding hudud really all about?


When a Muslim says he or she has to uphold hudud one needs to ask which hudud do they mean? The truth is, hudud as we know it today is human-made and therefore changeable and contestable.
For example, how many of us know that the Quran prescribes punishment for only four types of crimes — theft, robbery, adultery and slanderous accusation of adultery? And that classical jurists, i.e. men, expanded it to six, and in the 2002 Terengganu hudud and qisas legislation, it was expanded, again by men, to seven.

Three crimes that are today punishable under hudud — apostasy, consumption of alcohol and treason/armed rebellion — are not provided for under hudud in the Quran. Neither is the punishment of stoning for adulterers prescribed in the Quran. And neither, by the way, is death for apostasy.
What else about hudud as we know it today is based on human understanding and interpretation, and not divine authority? The requirement of at least four witnesses in a rape case was to protect women from slander and accusations of adultery, not to protect men from rape charges.

The Quranic verse¸  Surah An Nur 24.4, referring to the need for four witnesses stipulates this: “And those who launch a charge against chaste women, and produce not four witnesses (to support their allegations) – flog them with eighty stripes and reject their evidence ever after; for such men are wicked transgressors.” And so an injunction that was originally meant to protect women has been distorted, through human agency, into one where men are protected from accusations of rape.

Sisters in Islam (SIS) has noted that the hudud enactment that disqualifies women as witnesses also has no precedence in the time of the Prophet who, in fact, accepted women’s testimony as valid and legitimate.

Clearly, so much of hudud as we know it today is not divine and runs contrary to the Quran and Hadith because of flawed human interpretation. And yet, Muslims and non-Muslims in Malaysia are being told, no less by the Opposition Leader, that Muslims cannot but adhere to the implementation of hudud in Malaysia.

When politicians such as Deputy Prime Minister and Pakatan Rakyat de facto leader  assure Malaysians that hudud cannot be implemented because of the federal constitution, should we feel secure?

I don’t see any reason to be assured. Because what they are really saying — and it’s apparent in the qualifications they make — is that at some point in time, Malaysia could be ready for hudud to be implemented. After all, the  federal constitution can be amended. Indeed, it has been amended more frequently than the much older American constitution.

Politicians from both coalitions are also fond of saying that our multi-racial and multi-religious composition makes it untenable to implement hudud. At the same time, however, we’re hearing that the justification for implementing hudud in Kelantan is because most Muslims there want it.

Since Malaysia is a Muslim-majority country, isn’t it conceivable that the argument will one day, too, be made that the majority of citizens want hudud implemented nationwide? After all, non-Muslims in Malaysia have already been told they can’t use “Allah” and can’t eat publicly during Ramadhan and movies about pigs have been banned because of Muslim sensitivities.

Kelantan Menteri Besar  has told non-Muslims to stop making a fuss over hudud because it does not affect them. Catholic Bishop  has a similarly disturbing position. He believes Muslims in Kelantan should be allowed to implement syariah so long as non-Muslims are not affected.
The assumption that non Muslims will not be affected is a flawed one. We should understand by now that implementing syariah, including hudud, indicates growing theocratic tendencies in government.

And the problem with any theocracy — whether an Islamic, Christian or Hindu state — is that human-made laws are decreed to be unchallengeable and unchangeable because they are purportedly from God. It is for this reason that respected Muslim scholars  have argued that any Islamic state, since the Prophet, is undemocratic.

If we accept that one should remain silent because one is unaffected, then this is what we are really saying: That men should remain silent when women are discriminated against, Malaysians should not speak up when the Palestenians suffer aggression, and those of us who live outside of Bakun should not protest a mega-project that stripped away indigenous land rights.

If hudud as we know it today is flawed, and results in injustices against Muslims, it would be incumbent on justice- and peace-loving non-Muslims to make a fuss. It would also be well within all citizens’ rights to determine whether we want our government —  at state or federal levels — to wield almighty and divine authority over us.


What’s missing from the political rhetoric about hudud is that the Quran provides for repentance and reform for the four crimes it names under hudud. Indeed, forgiveness, mercy and compassion are a recurring and constant theme in the Quran. And yet current provisions under hudud laws do not provide for repentance, forgiveness and reformation.

SIS also points to a hadith that says, “Avert the hudud from being inflicted as much as you can, and whenever you find a way for a release (of a defendant), go through it, since it is better for one who rules to make a mistake in acquitting, than to make it in punishment.” Hence, it is accepted Islamic doctrine that it is better for many guilty persons to go free than for one innocent person to be wrongfully convicted.

And yet, this critical aspect about Islam and hudud is nowhere to be found in the rhetoric of PAS, Umno or PKR politicians. What a shame. Want to know what would be a bigger shame? If all of us allowed these politicians to get away with using Islam as the ball they can toss about in the games they play.

http://www.thenutgraph.com/whose-hudud/